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Johnny, well in all fairness we have yet to establish that it works...but if there is a big boom sunday at Talon, I will blame it on AB for not making me a bench :-)
IT's actually an old coffee table with a short plank lag bolted to it and then the press mounted to it.. Sanford and sons but it's mobile and stable which is more than I can say for many members here !
Last edited by NJC; March 5th, 2015 at 08:32 PM.
"Rule #1: Be a f-ing Warrior, every f-ing day, in every f-ing thing you do. Be a f-ing Warrior!
Rule #2: Support your men.
Rule #3: TEAMWORK! Team dynamics are absolutely important. Know your men and support them in every way."
Update:
Ghetto bench did not work worth a darn..that reloading press was rocking like a crack head looking for a fix.
Spent the day building a 4x2 table with a 1 inch thick oak top and a 3/4 inch thick plywood storage shelf. The Press is bolted to it now and i think it's pretty secure.
Upside, I learned a lot today and found a load for 7.4 gr of longshot. The next disk up in my measure goes to 8.0gr so I think I will have to buy one of these so I can get the amount of powder I want.
http://leeprecision.com/adj-charge-bar.html
I gor the COAL set to 1.125 which the load dats says is where it needs to be. I loaded a dummy with no powder and it chambered in a glock.
Hope to get back to it middle of of the week to get some ammo in the bucket ;-)
Lee says my dies will do 10mm also, which I happen to own one of so, uh...I can see where this gets addictive...my OCD will kick into overdrive here soon.
"Rule #1: Be a f-ing Warrior, every f-ing day, in every f-ing thing you do. Be a f-ing Warrior!
Rule #2: Support your men.
Rule #3: TEAMWORK! Team dynamics are absolutely important. Know your men and support them in every way."
Yup. 40S&W dies for sure are the same ones used for 10MM. You just have to readjust the bullet seating, crimping die, and case flair (powder drop) - dies UP to adjust for the longer case.
P.S. I have some 10mm load data using Longshot that will rock your world.
I'd rather be lucky than good, but I'd rather KNOW I'm good than HOPE to get lucky.
There are some plans for an NRA bench out there that are really nice. I based my bench off of it.
Putting the Harm in Pharmacist
See post #10 in this thread.
http://rugerforum.net/reloading/9784...harge-bar.html
I have also seen blank disks where you drill your own opening.
The disks are cheap enough to experiment with a spare set.
Figured you would !Originally Posted by Rumbler
Yup. 40S&W dies for sure are the same ones used for 10MM. You just have to readjust the bullet seating, crimping die, and case flair (powder drop) - dies UP to adjust for the longer case.
P.S. I have some 10mm load data using Longshot that will rock your world.
"Rule #1: Be a f-ing Warrior, every f-ing day, in every f-ing thing you do. Be a f-ing Warrior!
Rule #2: Support your men.
Rule #3: TEAMWORK! Team dynamics are absolutely important. Know your men and support them in every way."
I went to a Rock Chucker when I needed to load stuff of greater than .45 caliber, and also after I bent the handle on my RCBS turret press like a bow... but from there I went on down to several of those little Lee C presses, because they are so inexpensive and easy to use... then up just a little to a Lee 4-hole turret... because it's inexpensive and easier to use than the RCBS turret (though I suspect less exact). The Lee 4-hole aluminum turrets have a more useful number of holes than the RCBS cast iron 5-hole turrets and are so much less expensive and easier to store, that for most calibers I'm slowly switching die sets from RCBS turrets over to Lee turrets. It's a lot easier to sort through a pile of Lee turrets with dies installed to find the set of dies I'm looking for, than it is a pile of RCBS turrets, because the Lee turrets are about half the size and almost none of the weight. A Lee turret is so light it doesn't weigh much more than air.
"Living life in fear isn't living life at all." ~ Winter Soldier
Winter soldier,i have been using one of the turret presses for a yr now to reload my 45 acps,works good anything larger I go to my rock chucker.
(nam era) yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for I am the meanest SOB in the valley!
I have several benches and they are made of 2" lumber exclusively except for a shelf down across the legs. Even with that shelf below well loaded and a set of shelves abut 4 feet high sitting on the back of the top of the benches, against a wall, and also well-weighed down... there are times the back of the bench lifts up when one of my RCBS presses is put to a difficult job. My benches are also 24" x 48". I might have made them 30" or 32" wide if I had the space, but the basement room they are in is pretty small.
"Living life in fear isn't living life at all." ~ Winter Soldier
may go ahead and throw a 45lb plate on there !
"Rule #1: Be a f-ing Warrior, every f-ing day, in every f-ing thing you do. Be a f-ing Warrior!
Rule #2: Support your men.
Rule #3: TEAMWORK! Team dynamics are absolutely important. Know your men and support them in every way."
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